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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- NASCAR officials are investigating a physical altercation involving team owner Richard Childress and driver Kyle Busch in the garage area following Saturday's Truck series race at Kansas Speedway.
According to a member of a Truck...

If Mark Martin keeps winning like this, even he might have to concede that he's racing for a Sprint Cup championship.
The 50-year-old Martin won for the second time in the last four races, outlasting Jimmie Johnson in a wreck-filled show at Darlington...

. — Halted four times by rain and finally abandoned more than 24 hours after it was scheduled to start, NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 — already the longest race of the year — turned into a two-day calamity. This time, the victory didn't go to the swift at Lowe's...

— The most surprised person to find Mark Martin in Victory Lane at Michigan International Speedway was the driver himself.
The 50-year-old NASCAR star has run well but has had to deal with considerable bad luck this season. It looked like more of the...

Carl Edwards looked like he might deny Jeff Gordon his first Texas win while getting his third straight Sunday.
The final pit stop with 30 laps to go changed everything.
Edwards went to pit road with the lead just a few laps after he overtook the...

Jeff Gordon had gone so long without winning a race, that he picked up a new trick or two watching other drivers celebrate. No, not a backflip a la Carl Edwards. After the obligatory burnout on the frontstretch for his first victory ever at Texas, one...

AVONDALE, Ariz. — Mark Martin continued to defy his age, becoming the third-oldest winner in NASCAR history with his victory Saturday night at Phoenix International Raceway.
Martin, who has waffled on retirement several times in the last four years,...

Given NASCAR Nation's music tastes, it's only fitting to liken Mark Martin's victory at Phoenix on Saturday to a Toby Keith lyric."I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was."Martin is the fourth driver in his 50s to...

— Carl Edwards began his charge to the front with nine laps to go at Talladega Superspeedway. He never expected to end up airborne, upside down, sheet metal spewing behind him as his car sailed into the safety fence. The fence bowed, but held, and Edwards...

Denny Hamlin has come oh-so-close to being the star of a warm, feel-good story at his home track, Richmond International Raceway.
The problem is finishing the closing chapter.
In 2006, in his first Cup start at the track 18 miles from his home in...

For 25 years, stock car racing was about hand-eye and foot-to-the-throttle coordination for Elton Sawyer.
And few, if any, local drivers have produced a career as successful and enduring.
Sawyer, a Chesapeake native, is the only Langley Speedway...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is NASCAR's most popular driver. Has been since his father died on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500.
The most eloquent driver?
Not so much.
Need a racing, or even worldly, issue addressed in the garage? Try Jeff Burton, Mark...

The great Southern author Terry Kay wrote a novel entitled "The Year the Lights Came On" about a time when electricity arrived in town.The same title could apply to Jimmie Johnson and his racing at Richmond Intern

— Talladega Superspeedway, site of last weekend's Sprint Cup Series race, is known for producing first-time, only-time winners. Eight drivers — including a who's who of who-the-heck-are-they such as Richard Bouchard and Ron Brickhouse — won their only Cup...

— The Sprint Cup Series' newest star, Brad Keselowski, will not run tonight in the Russ Friedman 400 at Richmond International Raceway. Keselowski, who drove the Dale Earnhardt Jr.-owned car Friday in the Nationwide Series race, competes in Cup for the...

RICHMOND — By winning the Nationwide Series Lipton Tea 250 on Friday, Kyle Busch stretched his lead to 82 points over Carl Edwards, who finished second. Feeling good about that margin, Busch is aiming to become the second driver in NASCAR history to win...

Racin' faced long odds Saturday night.
Less than two hours before the green flag fell at Richmond International Raceway, a 50-to-1 shot stormed through on the rail to win the Kentucky Derby going away. And just as the Sprint Cup crowd began turning...

Ever feel tens of thousands of people root for a wreck, a spin, a fender-bender, a piece of debris on the track in a race that had more than its share of caution flags already?
That's what it felt like late Saturday night at Richmond International...

— Wayne Nooe will tell you that he's a detail guy and that he's persistent, which explains how a humble family man became a scratch golfer, how he helped build the local LPGA tournament into one of the best on tour, and as a kid how he finally got his dad...

Kasey Kahne has snapped a 37-race winless streak by holding off Tony Stewart at Infineon Raceway for his first victory on a road course.
Kahne led the final 38 laps of Sunday's race, but had to stave off a final charge from Stewart on an overtime...